{"id":96088,"date":"2016-06-21T14:24:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T18:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=96088"},"modified":"2016-06-21T13:53:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T17:53:26","slug":"pro-abortion-strategist-claims-pro-lifers-negatively-impact-womens-economic-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-strategist-claims-pro-lifers-negatively-impact-womens-economic-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion strategist claims abortion is necessary for families&#8217; economic security"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Celinda Lake, president of Lake Research Partners, recently\u00a0had <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/congress-blog\/economy-budget\/283278-the-united-state-of-women-reproductive-health-is-an\">a column<\/a> published for The Hill in which she claimed that &#8220;reproductive health is an economic issue.&#8221;\u00a0Lake begins her column by noting that children are expensive, and that people seem to forget to use that term to describe\u00a0what having a child is like.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To say nothing of the emotional investment, it is no small choice and so it is not surprising that people take the decision about when to start a family seriously and often put great thought and planning\u00a0 into parenthood,&#8221; Lake says.<\/p>\n<p>First off, yes, children\u00a0can be expensive, but why is it that this admission somehow always leads to abortion advocates pushing to kill children in the womb? &#8220;Expensive&#8221; may\u00a0also be a rarely-used term because taking care of others, especially one&#8217;s own offspring, is not just considered a\u00a0challenge but\u00a0a joy &#8212; and a fact of life.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Lake&#8217;s column takes a predictable turn, then, as she faults politicians (she specifically names\u00a0Republicans) for somehow negatively impacting women&#8217;s economic rights:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Until policymakers and politicians acknowledge that having the freedom and ability to plan if and when to have children is directly linked to families\u2019 economic security, they will be skipping over a major economic concern for their constituents \u2013 and what is a core economic value for many[.]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230; Republicans in Congress and state legislatures dismiss the importance of access to reproductive care, including birth control and abortion, in effect dismissing the importance of women actively engaging in their own health care and controlling their own future, including when and if to have children&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lake&#8217;s view is one that dehumanizes the preborn,\u00a0pregnancy and childbirth overall by simply pretending that the life already developing in the womb is of no consideration whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/AbortionProcedures.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg\" alt=\"levatino-ad-LAN\" width=\"306\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230; And yet Republican lawmakers deny this connection and the importance of reproductive care. Across the country, we have seen Republican governors, legislators and elected members of Congress attack access to safe legal abortion &#8211; which Gallup shows support for which has remained steady for a decade &#8211; move to strip funding for breast and cervical cancer screenings, birth control, and HIV tests at Planned Parenthood, and cut access to publicly funded programs for women\u2019s reproductive care&#8230;\u00a0Until Republican lawmakers accept this as fact, they will remain hopelessly out of touch with families, leaving American families to pick up the pieces&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just that many Republicans and some Democrats are in disagreement with Lake&#8217;s pro-abortion views, instead believing that the right to life must be protected. \u00a0(Abortion advocates\u00a0<a href=\"\/news\/cecile-richards-insults-women-voters-who-disagree-with-her\/\">have a hard time<\/a>\u00a0understanding that disagreement is allowed.)\u00a0No, Lake says, it&#8217;s that they&#8217;re in &#8220;denial&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In their denial, they are ignoring the basic economic realities that tens of millions of Americans face, forcing an agenda &#8211; like defunding Planned Parenthood, restricting access to women\u2019s health care, and stripping publicly funded health programs &#8211; that runs counter to what their constituents value.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s back up a moment. No one has moved to &#8220;strip funding&#8221; for any of the screenings or tests Lake mentions. Instead, pro-life politicians\u00a0have moved to transfer the funding from one provider,\u00a0Planned Parenthood, to\u00a0<a href=\"\/news\/?s=federally+qualified+health+centers\">Federally Qualified Health Centers<\/a>\u00a0(FQHCs), which better serve women and men,\u00a0<a href=\"\/news\/will-poor-women-go-health-care-defund-planned-parenthood-everywhere\/\">with more locations<\/a>, free services, and without\u00a0offering abortion.\u00a0If abortion advocates\u00a0really wanted to make &#8220;access to women&#8217;s health care&#8221; a priority, they would see that it makes more sense to fund these centers, which vastly outnumber Planned Parenthood in every single state.\u00a0Lake also\u00a0fails to mention that these legitimate services have\u00a0<a href=\"\/news\/abortion-inc-new-report-shows-how-planned-parenthood-used-taxpayer-dollars-to-become-the-abortion-giant\/\">decreased<\/a>\u00a0at Planned Parenthood,\u00a0even while\u00a0<a href=\"\/news\/planned-parenthood-health-care-services-declined-in-2014-while-taxpayer-funding-increased\/\">the abortion giant\u00a0receives<\/a> more taxpayer dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood is\u00a0the nation&#8217;s largest abortion chain, and is\u00a0<a href=\"\/news\/united-states-planned-parenthood-world-leaders-performing-abortions\/\">also a world leader<\/a>\u00a0in promotion and provision of the\u00a0barbaric life-ending procedure. Planned Parenthood even has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthoodaction.org\/\">an active political arm<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"\/news\/breaking-planned-parenthood-endorsed-hillary-clinton\/\">endorses<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"\/news\/25-politicians-received-money-planned-parenthood\/\">funds<\/a>\u00a0candidates. Let&#8217;s not pretend they don&#8217;t have an agenda of their own.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-life\u00a0politicians don&#8217;t &#8220;dismiss the importance of access to reproductive care.&#8221; They are acting on the importance of the <em>right to life<\/em>. Engaging in one&#8217;s own health care\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0which does\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>include abortion\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0can mean acquiring birth control which is already accessible, or it can mean choosing not to have sex, or it can mean obtaining care for fertility issues or\u00a0even obtaining prenatal care. What &#8220;access to reproductive care&#8221; should never include is killing.<\/p>\n<p>And while we&#8217;re talking about women &#8220;controlling their own future[s],&#8221; abortion advocates rarely stop to think (and\u00a0<a href=\"\/news\/debunking-rolling-stones-seven-most-common-lies-about-abortion-part-one\/\">often deny<\/a>)\u00a0that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunchoice.com\/psychological.htm\">having an abortion<\/a> can have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunchoice.com\/pdf\/FactSheets\/PsychologicalRisks.pdf\">a negative impact<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aul.org\/womens-health-defense-actlate-term-abortion-limit\/\">a woman&#8217;s future<\/a> health and well-being.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Voters have spoken, and they believe that women and their families should have the freedom to plan if and when they have children,&#8221; Lake writes in closing. What Lake fails to either realize or admit\u00a0is that abortion actually kills children already in existence in the womb. <em>This<\/em> is what pro-lifers cannot support. Supporting both women and children instead of advocating death\u00a0is the pro-life\u00a0agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Current Speaker of the House Paul Ryan penned <a href=\"http:\/\/paulryan.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?documentid=207539\">a 2010 column<\/a> for the Heritage Foundation about how the economic principles of the free market go\u00a0hand in hand\u00a0with the right to life. Maybe Lake\u00a0&#8211;whose firm serves &#8220;solely pro-choice candidates&#8221; and groups (according to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakeresearch.com\/\">website<\/a>) which include no fewer than 15 pro-abortion organizations\u00a0&#8212; should consider this perspective before advocating death as a solution to economic woes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celinda Lake, president of Lake Research Partners, recently\u00a0had a column published for The Hill in which she claimed that &#8220;reproductive health is an economic issue.&#8221;\u00a0Lake begins her column by noting that children are expensive, and that people seem to forget to use that term to describe\u00a0what having a child is like. &#8220;To say nothing of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":75520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[9175,3049,9176],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pro-abortion strategist claims abortion is necessary for families&#039; 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